The Overview Effect
“We are stunned // when we see the thing we came to retrieve: / a body’s worth of ashes, divided into three bricks so tangible”
Claire Kiefer
Claire Kiefer is a writer and social worker based in Atlanta. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from San Francisco State University and a Master of Social Work from Georgia State University. Claire is a Mitigation Specialist in federal public defense, where her job is to tell her clients’ stories in a way that emphasizes their complexity and humanity. Her work can be found in Booth, Tidal Basin Review, Eunoia Review, Tidal Basin Review, Poems & Plays, and others.